Sorry it took so long, but hey, it's here now. Btw, if you haven't read in The Unknowns II, I'm looking for someone to do a cover pic for my new story about Aang and Katara where it's a student-teacher thing, it would be much appreciated. Anyways, this chapter has some adult content between Katara and Aang...so...enjoy that :D

"Ah man, its Toph," Sokka complained from the saddle.

The blind bender smirked, "You brought Meat Head huh? I never thought you would leave that frozen wasteland Sugar Queen, what are you doing with an Air Bender?" Katara looked at the Princess who had grown a lot since seeing her last. She kept her usual hair style, but her hair band was now forest green with a golden emblem of a flying boar in the middle of it. Instead of baggy clothes that she had usually wore when her parents weren't around, she wore skin tight pants that stopped at her mid-calf that showed off her new curves. Like usual, she was barefoot, but had her green anklets going down and covering the top of her feet. She wore a sleeveless beige shirt with a high collar with a long front and back that stopped at her thighs.

"It's a long story Toph…but Aang and I are married now," Katara told her.

Toph broke out into a laugh, bending over, her hands on her knees as she tried to catch her breath, "No way!" Aang rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly as Toph continued to laugh. "No! No! I can't breathe! You have to be messing with me! You married Twinkle Toes?!" She fell to her knees as she wiped her tears. "This is just priceless!"

Katara raised an eyebrow to her friend, "Why is it so funny Toph?"

Toph finally regained her breath, "It's funny because he would be the last person that I would think would marry a Princess…maybe a Prince, but that's pushing it."

Aang scowled, "Thanks Toph."

She punched him in the shoulder, "Ah, you know you missed me Twinkles, how long has it been? One year?"

"Judging by when my bruises finally faded, yes, it has been a year," Aang rubbed his shoulder, "I wish you had a better way of showing your love."

"I could kiss you, but I don't think Sweetness would like that," She smiled again, she felt Yue get off Appa, "Ah, and you brought Princess too."

"Hi Toph," Yue briefly spoke.

"Aang, how do you know Toph?" Katara finally asked.

Toph put her arm around Aang's shoulders, "Aang always comes to the Ba Sing Se Royal Ball to represent the Air Nomads, which you would know if you ever came to it. He's usually my dance partner, but it looks like I might need to find a new one since someone is taken."

"How do you know Katara?" Aang asked.

She rolled her blind eyes, "Weird that two Princesses would know each other, huh? Since, you know, there are only 4 of us…It's a small world Twinkle Toes, we eventually met." Aang sighed, remembering how sarcastic his friend was. "So are you coming to the Ball this year? It's next week. It would be good to see if Sugar Queen can actually dance."

"How are you going to do that? You can't s-" Sokka was interrupted as a rock pillar sent him sky high, Yue gasped and watched as her husband flailed in the air.

"Since it's getting late, how about you guys stay with my family and you can decide in the morning. You should remember where it is Twinkles," She spun on her back heel and walked away. "Oh and you should probably catch him." Without looking away from Toph, Aang created a small air current that caught Sokka before he crashed into the ground. Sokka breathed a sigh of relief, but was dropped the last two feet he was from the ground onto his butt. He grumbled as he got back up to a vertical base.

Aang turned back to his brother-in-law, "You really know how to push her buttons, don't you?"

"It's not that," Sokka groaned, "Her and I aren't on the best of terms."

"Why's that?"

"Because Toph was supposed to marry Sokka," Katara told him.


Toph sighed as she dipped her toes in the cold water, even though she couldn't see the night, she enjoyed the cool weather. Her hands were extended behind her, holding her up. She felt the vibrations of someone approaching and she could already tell who it was. "So you finally found me?"

"I took you here before," Aang sat down next to her. "Toph, it's been a year and I wanted to spend time with you…but you didn't show up to dinner."

She blew her bangs out from her face, "I'm sorry."

"You know," He looked down to the water, "I was kind of excited for you to meet Katara…I saved her down in the Southern Water Tribe when she fell through the ice, her Dad gave me her hand in return." Aang went silent once again, "I have a knack for saving Princesses don't I?"

Toph softly smiled, "That you do Twinkle Toes. I think I would have just run away again if you didn't talk to me."

"I saved you from making a bad decision…you were emotionally distraught, as much as you say you're the best Earth Bender in the world, your emotions get the better of you," Aang told her. "And if I didn't, we wouldn't be as close as we are." He looked over to her. "And if we were as close as we are, it would be nice to know what is going on between my new brother-in-law and my best friend."

Her smile faded, "There is a reason I don't talk about that…he picked Yue over me. It's one of the first times I've ever felt I'm not good enough. Like no one will ever want me because I can't see. All people see is a defenseless blind girl, I want people to see me like you do or how you made me parents see me like." Aang knew it was more than that to bring down Toph; nothing like this would faze her. It's what gave her the tough outer shell everyone came to know. Then it hit him.

"You still have to get married," Aang said, "You're mad at Sokka because at least you knew what kind of guy he is, but the new guy you have to marry, you know nothing about him."

"You know, I get really tired of you reading me that easy," Toph gave him a sad chuckle. "They won't even tell me who I'm going to marry…it could be someone from the Water Tribe, from the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation or even an Air Nomad. The guy could be my age or even old enough to be my Dad. I wanted to marry Sokka, but now I have no choice, it's like going back to when I was 13 again."

Aang put his arm around Toph's shoulders, "It will be fine Toph…if it helps, there is no real royal in my culture, so that narrows it down." He saw the scowl on her face, "Not helping at all I guess. Think of it this way Toph, you might be the next Fire Lady, the first Earth Bending Fire Lady."

She scoffed, "Yeah, like the 'I'm too busy to even travel once a year to the Earth Kingdom' Lord would pick a blind bride. I would be lucky if that could even happen. Most likely I'm going to be married to some old general here in the Earth Kingdom."

"I think you and Zuko would be great rulers together, he's hot headed and you're hard headed," Aang chuckled, even as Toph punched him on the shoulder. His laugh was cut short when his senses kicked in. "Someone is here." His tone turned serious. He went into attack mode and created a strong current of air in front of them, destroying an arrow that narrowly hit him. Aang sent a gust of wind towards the trees behind the fence to see the assassin fleeing.

Toph rolled back onto her feet, "I got him." She broke out into a run towards the metal fence and bent it out of her way without touching it and continued running through. Aang quickly followed her as she chased after the assassin. She bent up earth walls to slow him down, but he easily vaulted over them. Toph growled and sent an even higher wall up, over the trees and stopped the assassin in his tracks. He turned back to them and readied his bow, but was met with Toph's feet and sent through the stone wall. He rolled across the grass as Toph got into her stance, "You chose the wrong people to try to kill."

Aang made his way through the rock wall as the assassin regained his vertical base. Both benders backed him against the river, both ready to strike at any moment. They didn't notice the small group of men on the other side of the river, an ice bridge formed across the river for him and he quickly crossed it, the bridge collapsing behind him. Toph and Aang watched as they ran away, "It looks like one of us has an enemy."


He scowled at his men, "How hard is it to kill an Air Bender? Air Benders are pacifists…they DON'T FIGHT!" The men winced when he raised his voice. "You are the most ruthless criminals in the Four Nations and the abilities of an Air Bender are too much for you?"

"Well there was the Earth Princess-"

"WHO IS BLIND!" He yelled. "THE FUCKING EARTH PRINCESS IS BLIND! She can't see an arrow coming for her! But she still almost beat you," He pointed at the archer. "Our group has been behind the biggest death in the world. Our brothers have killed Kings, Generals, Diplomats and even killed a Lion Turtle. I was born into this like all of you were…but I've proved my worth. All you've killed are commoners. If you cannot kill 'Avatar' Aang…then I'll make sure your blood is spilt, do you understand me?" They all nodded. "Now I trust that you understand now because of this failure, we have not only the Air Bender on alert, but he is in a heavily defended home."

"What should we do if he is in constant protection?" The Water Bender asked.

"That's for you to find out," He told him, "You are old enough to figure out how to kill one Air Bender who's only other protection outside of that home is a blind girl and a princess who couldn't even probably couldn't even bend a strand of saliva. Do you understand?"

"Yes sir!" They all answered in unison.

"Now go make our ancestors proud and not have to look down at you all with disgrace!"


Toph let out a low growl when her cheek was pressed against her Mother's, "Oh Toffee, I cannot believe someone would try to kill you! Whoever would want to bring ill will towards an innocent blind girl?"

"I can think of some people," Toph mumbled.

"Queen Bei Fong, has your family made any enemies recently that might want to hurt you or anyone close to you?" Aang asked.

Lao took a relaxing breath, "We're dealing with politics, who isn't our enemy? That's why we've made the deal with the Fire Lord to settle the heated words between us by giving him our daughter."

Aang's jaw almost dropped, "Toph is going to be married off to Fire Lord Zuko?" He looked over to Toph to try to read anything off her face, but couldn't get a thing, though he shouldn't be surprised. She must have been between emotions with knowing who she was finally marrying and realizing that she is being married off for political reasons.

"Yes, it was the Fire Lord's wish. He wanted to marry our daughter in exchange for the goods and services we've been arguing about for a couple years." Lao explained, his thoughts obviously on other things.

Toph scoffed, "Yeah, what did you trade me for Dad, a piece of land? Some Fire Flakes?"

"10 Iron Frigates, a 40% increase of goods imported to Ba Sing Se, the debt that the Fire Nation was owed the Earth Kingdom for 1000 years, engineers to bring the technology of our Nation up to the Fire Nation's level…and yes, Fire Flakes will now be imported also to the Earth Kingdom," Poppy explained, bringing a surprised look to Toph's face. "It was surprising because we literally offered everything for a lot of those things, but all he wanted was you. He was supposed to meet you at this year's Ball in Ba Sing Se but we can't leave here if it would bring any harm towards our daughter."

A light popped on in Aang's head, "What if I took her to Ba Sing Se?"

"What? Take my daughter to Ba Sing Se without any guards? Are you insane?" Lao asked.

"You've trusted me with your daughter before Mr. Bei Fong, no harm has ever come to your daughter as long as she was with me. I saved the relationship between you all and I protected her from the arrow tonight. You know your daughter is an Earth Bending prodigy and is near unbeatable and with me with her, we're completely invincible. We will leave early in the morning for Ba Sing Se, they won't see it coming. And if the target happens to be the Bei Fong Family, you will have your guards and the Dai Li agents to protect you and your wife." Aang told him. "You have my word that I will get your daughter to Ba Sing Se safely."

Lao and Poppy both shared a looking, knowing that would be the best plan, even if they didn't want to admit it, "Fine…but if one hair on my daughter's head…"

"I know, your daughter is completely safe with me Mr. Bei Fong, thank you for your understanding." Aang bowed to him. He and Toph both walked out of the small throne room the vacation home had, passed the guards that were now at every corner of the house. He finally turned his attention to Toph, "Are you okay?" She nodded. "At least you know who you are going to marry."

"Did you hear what they said?" She finally spoke, "He gave my parents so much, everything my country wanted from the Fire Nation…to have me." Aang saw a warm smile spread across her face, "He wants me."

Aang put his arm around his friend, "See? You're not just a 'broken' Princess Toph. I know Zuko personally, he's a really good guy. You two will be very happy with each other."

Toph nervously wrung her hands, "Do you really think so? What if he doesn't like my personality? What if he's doesn't like the fact that I'm my own independent person? What if I can't make him happy?"

He couldn't help but laugh, he had never seen this side of Toph and seeing her like this now was more than hilarious. "Toph, relax. I think I know why he chose you."

"Why?"

"Because I told him about you," Aang said, "I told him about how much of a sarcastic, hard headed, tough-"

"I get it!" She interrupted him.

He smiled, "Don't worry, Zuko knows what he's getting into." Aang heard her grumble some things that he wouldn't repeat in the right company. "You should get some sleep Toph, I need you 100 percent for tomorrow."

"Yeah, yeah," She pushed off him like a little kid, making Aang laugh. "Wait, can I ask you something Aang?"

"Sure."

"That man wasn't after me was he?"

Aang rubbed the back of his neck, "I think it would be highly unlikely…unless you've pissed off the guys down at Earth Rumble. Good night Toph…"

"Good night Twinkle Toes," Toph replied, "Don't get yourself killed on the way to your room," She joked before going towards her room. Aang walked down the hall until he came to the room he and Katara shared and was met by her flying body.

Katara clung onto him, her face in the crook of his neck, "I was so worried," She whispered. He held her and closed the door with his foot.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry you," He held her tighter.

"Please don't ever scare me like that again," Katara told him, "All I could think about was that you were hurt and I would never see you again."

Aang kissed her cheek before resting his head back against her shoulder again, "It will take more than an arrow to take me out." He continued to hold her, knowing how much this affected her more than it did him. Knowing he couldn't do anything else, all he could do is be prepared for the next attack and protect the people he cared about…especially Katara. Aang pulled away to see Katara's tear brimmed eyes, he cupped her cheek, "Katara," His thumb wiped away the stray tear that dared ruin her perfect face. "Please don't cry."

"I can't help it," She wiped the tears away from her eyes, "I've never had to experience this before…I've never had anyone close to me have their life threatened, especially when it's someone that I'm completely in love with."

He kissed her lips, "I promise that nothing will happen to me Katara, I'm a Master Air Bender and I have an almost Master Water Bender wife who has my back." The smile that appeared on her face brought one to his, "There's my smiling girl. I understand how hard this must be on you, but let's just be happy that both Toph and I are unharmed…and that we now have another person along for the journey."

"What do you mean?"

"We're leaving for Ba Sing Se in the morning with Toph…we're going to the Ba Sing Se Royal Ball, or what Toph's Mother likes to call 'Ball in Ba Sing Se'." Aang explained, "We're leaving early enough that the people who are possibly assassinate Toph…or me won't notice us leaving and think we are traveling with the Bei Fong family. With their Royal guards and the Dai Li agents guarding them, they should be more than prepared for an attack if one comes. It's just another side journey, but it gives me an excuse."

She cocked an eyebrow, "An excuse for what?"

"So I can show the world my beautiful wife, like I said, we're going to the Ball of Ba Sing Se," Aang used a upper class royal voice, making Katara laugh, "We'll get you a pretty Water Tribe Dress and get me some Air Nomad robes…you'll actually see me in my regular clothes instead of these Fire Nation ones." He ran a hand over his hair, "Maybe I should cut my hair…"

"Don't," She told him, "I like your hair."

Aang kissed her again, but deeper this time, making her knees wobble, "I won't then. I'm going to take a bath, but I'll be done soon."

"Let me wash you," Katara suggested, "It's my duties as a wife in the Water Tribe." Aang was about to protest, but Katara put a finger to his lips, "No, you're not saying anything about this. I've waited patiently to do what I want to do and for you. Even though I have to wait for the physical part of doing stuff to you, I'm going to wash you. Now get in there, get the bath ready and be prepared to get taken care of, okay?"

He complied without another word and went into the bathroom as Katara felt all the courage and power in her leave with him. She had no idea what came over her, but she loved it. Talking to your husband like that in the Water Tribe years back would have been a death wish. It gave Katara a thrill to be able to do that…more of a sexual thrill than anything else though. But she had to hold it back, remembering her deal with her sister-in-law. Now the question, as Aang ran the bath, was if she should go in nude or with her Sarashi wrappings and underwear. While going in there nude might make some temptations more tempting, she didn't really want to go in with her wrappings. Aang had seen her naked before, though it was a life or death situation and it wasn't like he had time to really check out her body. Once she heard the water stop running, Katara made her decision and let her tunic and the rest of her clothing drop. Taking another confident breath, she strode into the bathroom, her body completely open for Aang to see. She took it as a good sign when he turned to her that his eyes widened and his jaw slackened. Katara was happy that she had maintained everything below the belt for Aang, just in case. Aside from the now clean mound, Katara's body was exactly as he remembered it when he had gotten her into his sleeping bag, her perky breasts, her slim stomach and her wide hips along with her perfect backside. "Wow," Aang breathed as he drank the sight of Katara in.

Katara's smile became more confident, "In a matter of weeks, you can do whatever you want to this body. But for now, I'm going to do whatever I want to yours." Walking over to the jade colored square tub, Aang moved forward to let her slip into the tub behind him, not daring to look back at her body anymore in fear of letting his feelings get the best of him. Katara ran her smooth hands over his broad shoulders then followed the arrows down his arms. Pressing her chest against his back and placing soft kisses along his shoulder, Katara's hands went around to feel his pectorals and his abdominal muscles. She felt like she was in heaven.

"Katara, while I have no problem with this, I'm not getting any cleaner," Aang joked.

Katara's hands went further, but didn't expect to find what she did. Her eyes widened and his breathing hitched. She explored it further until it she confirmed what she was holding. "That's your…"

"Yeah…" Aang said with a strangled breath, "Holding it isn't really helping though."

"I've never seen one before…or touched one," A blush crept across her face. "Did I do this to you?" Aang nodded. Katara stroked it a couple times, making Aang moan involuntarily, "I've only been taught some things about pleasing you. I know this is supposed to feel good." Her thumb went around the tip, he thrusted in her hands.

Aang began to pant, "Katara, w-we have to stop. I'm not going to be able to stop."

She moved around in the water to look Aang face to face and straddled him, her breasts in her face, "Then don't hold back." Katara looked down between them to see what she had been exploring, she wrapped her hands around it again and was met with a heated kiss from Aang. His kisses were completely different from the others he had given her, it was full of lust and desire for her as her hands went faster. Aang's nails dug into her thighs as he felt his end approaching quickly.

He squeezed his eyes shut, "Katara!" She felt him throb and climaxed in her hands, his first couple shots hit her in the stomach, then the rest fell into the water. Aang's head hung on the edge of the tub as Katara examined the white substance on her body. Katara had heard about this and unfortunately overheard a conversation about Yue 'swallowing' this. She swiped some off of her stomach and gave it a quick taste. At first she was put off by the taste, but it had a fruity taste to it.

Katara knew she would learn to enjoy the taste…as long as she got more practice with her husband. She grabbed the soap off the dish that was on the side of the square tub and rubbed it between her hands before putting it back down. Aang moaned softly as she cleaned his chest, she couldn't help but smile at the relax look on his face. "Do you see how happy I can make you if you just let me do what I'm supposed to do?"

"I thought you didn't want to just pleasure me and do whatever I ask without a question," Aang said, his eyes staying closed as Katara went over his shoulders.

"Well, I didn't want to have to do this for some older man that I was going to be forced to marry," Katara bent a small orb of water up in the air and let the water trickle down to wash the soap away. "But for you, someone I love, I want to do things like this." Katara grabbed the soap again and gathered more of it on her hands. She ran her fingers through his hair while massaging his scalp, "Just think about it as my turn to take care of you."

"If you do this every time I bathe, I won't have any problem with what you do," Aang said as he finally opened his eyes to meet hers.

Katara smiled at him, "Just as long as you do the same for me."


Toph yawned as she walked in the crisp morning air with Sokka and Yue, though she couldn't see it, the sun had barely poked above the horizon. She had already had her 'teary' goodbye with her parents, Toph was pretty sure that her Mother would have dehydrated herself if she cried anymore. The Water Tribe couple had been completely silent and created an awkward silence because of their past. A smirk came across her face, feeling their high tension through their heartbeats. "AH!" Toph yelled, making Yue jump and scream into Sokka's arms. She laughed as Sokka shot her a dirty look she couldn't see. "Ah man, you guys are so high strung, if you guys are like this the whole way to Ba Sing Se, we're going to have some fun."

"Okay, I'm just going to bring it up and get it out of the way," Yue said as Sokka set her back down, "Toph, I'm sorry what happened between you and Sokka and he married me instead."

"You still think I'm mad about that?" Toph chuckled, her smile getting bigger on her face as she remembered the news that she got last night. "It's perfectly fine, you two are together and I'm engaged, we're all happy."

Sokka's eyebrow raised, "You're engaged?"

Toph nodded, "Yep, I'm engaged to Fire Lord Zuko." Both of their jaws dropped.

"No way! You're a very lucky girl Toph," Yue praised, "The Fire Lord is very attractive."

Sokka turned to his wife, "Hey!"

Yue gave him a sheepish smile, "What? I cannot deny that he's attractive with is dark hair, his muscles…" She seemed to drift off before Sokka snapped his fingers in front of her face, "Oh sorry, what were we talking about?"

"Missing me yet Snoozles?" Toph teased as they continued up the path to Appa.

"Hey guys," They all heard Aang's happy voice as he jumped down from Appa, "Ready to go?"

Toph blew her bangs out of her eyes, "You sound very happy this morning Twinkle Toes."

Aang took a deep breath and let out a happy sigh, "Because today is a great day and there is nothing like watching the sun rise in the Earth Kingdom. Isn't that right Katara?"

She gave him a smile, "Of course."

"If I thought one Twinkle Toes was bad enough," Toph grumbled, pulling her bag tighter around her shoulder.

Yue gave Aang a questionable look, then to Katara and instantly understood what they were both so happy about. "Katara, may I talk to you for a second?" Katara nodded as she finished putting her gloves on. She took her far enough away from the group before she finally spoke, "I thought we had a deal."

"What do you mean?" Katara asked.

She looked over to her husband before turning back to Katara, "I would do all those things for you if you didn't do something with Aang, ring any bells?"

"Oh, Aang and I haven't done that yet," Katara told her.

"Then why is he that happy? The last time I've seen someone that happy is after the first night your brother and I made love," Yue argued.

A disgusted look came over Katara's face, "Ugh, that's gross, don't ever say that again. Aang and I haven't made love yet…but you never said anything about anything before that. I'm just doing my wifely duties." Katara gave her a smile, "Don't worry, we'll still follow the rules…we're just going to have fun with it." Katara told her. "I can't wait for the special night by the way," Katara hugged her sister-in-law. "Also, before I forget, now I know why you 'swallow', it's pretty good." The Northern Princess's face went completely red, trying not to let her mind think about what could have possibly happened between the two.

-SDB